As the blogger well knows (I am assuming you do actually know something about home ed but are just pursuing your own political agenda) home educated children have large circles of friends and their parents throw themselves into ensuring they have fantastic social lives. I am not quite sure how leaving your child with the same group of children and tiny handful of adults, day in, day out for 6 years at a time amounts to mixing with a wide range of children. Do elaborate. In fact what is your optimum number of people with whom to associate regularly? You clearly have a figure in mind. Perhaps you can make that figure known and you can back it up with a piece of research and then we can all ensure that our children have that identical socical experience.

Would you say that the only way to learn about the House of Lords was to have a visit from you? Rather worrying, both in terms of what it says about the institution and indeed your view of how one learns about anything.

The fact is – and I do wish the labour party would be honest for once about this – Ed Balls and his ilk KNOW this is a way out of a failing school system for many people. You can’t argue with the hard left though. They will lie and lie and lie to get their own ends.

There are people in this country who are criminals but we don’t insist on searching the homes of every family lest they are concealing stolen goods.

There are many people (some in the House of Lords if the stats are realistic) whohave a sexual interest in children but we don’t police everyone’s homes.

If we were able to investigate everyone’s computer we would catch many paedophiles. As a home educator, I would agree to that – so come on – would all MPs agree to do the same? I bet not.

We get no financial help from the government to do any of these activities/tuition like schools do, but we choose to go without in order that our child can have a good education at home.

Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to carry out some research of your own into home educating families, before posting further on the subject…I know that I wish I had been lucky enough to have been educated at home…

You need to get out and meet some of the people whose lives you try to talk about but appear to have very little knowledge of.

To quote from the introduction in the pdf link below:

“These powers derive from arrangements which preceded the 1689 Declaration of Rights and have been accumulated by the government without Parliament or the people having a say.”

The point is that post 1689, the House of Lords was able to use these powers because governance was blurred in that a peer could be a Prime Minister and that there was no clear demarcation between the two houses, governance was simply governance.

The report and its origins in various Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) publications make constant reference to the word ‘Parliament’ in the use of prerogative powers when the government knows full well that after the 911 Parliament Act the House of Lords no longer had any say in their use.

We must conclude from this that Parliament is the Commons and the Commons is the ‘Monarchy’ which the 1689 Declaration of Rights Act sought to tame. In this respect the House of Lords is irrelevant.

This is surely unconstitutional as the original arrangements by long standing custom and practice involved the House of Lords in the exercise of these prerogative powers; the 1911 Parliament Act in effect removed what was a constitutional freedom enjoyed by the House of Lords over many centuries.

In the 2002-2003 PASC19 report it makes an observation that seems to have gone missing from the final report: “the King (and Queen) can do no wrong (for example the Queen cannot be prosecuted in her own courts)” An oversight in the final report?

Ref: Ministry of Justice: The Governance of Britain
Review of the Executive Royal Prerogative Powers: Final Report
http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/docs/royal-prerogative.pdf
Public Administration Select Committee: PASC19; A-4
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/public_administration_select_committee/pasc_19.cfm

Frankly, I worry that you have lost the historical perspective that demonstrates that for many millennia human beings were perfectly able to function in society without the “advantages” provided by schooling.

One comes from a radical reactionary, right back to 1914! Even the laws that have just come on to the statute!

Abolish all laws made since 1914….. and try to carry on!